I’ve been working on creating a path through part of the gardens out back. The gravel is in (for now…I may expand it down the road). Tomorrow I’m going to work on adding in two gardens, one on each side of the main path.
All posts by “Eugene Knapik”
Stealin’ from Chet
I wasn’t thinking about guitar when I went to Midwest Banjo Camp. In fact I don’t think too much about guitar. I can’t play one of those things for beans. First of all it has one too many strings. What’s that all about? However, at… Read More
Long Branch Garden Tour in the Media
Inside Toronto did a nice piece about the upcoming Long Branch by the Lake Garden Tour, featuring a photo of Sheila Gregory (AKA Tuffy P for regular blog readers).
Midwest Banjo Camp
Regular visitors to this blog know that if nothing else, I have been a regular poster in this space for years, with few lapses. Very recently, however, I took a little personal holiday and went on a road-trip, and a couple weeks after returning, I… Read More
Saw Mill Man
For those who like the grittiest edge of country music….here’s Cast King. This is a great recording. Go buy it. Mr. King has passed on now, but I still listen to Saw Mill Man regularly.
Hit the Chicken Switch
It’s the James Hunter Six!
Long Branch Good Morning May 31 6:30am
Poppies have popped this morning in our 27th Street gardens!
Another one down in South Long Branch
This is what was formerly 4 Twenty Seventh Street, the house we knew as Ottie’s place. It is being torn down today to make way for a pair of the kind of “soldier houses” which provide the builders with the greatest possible profit, and which… Read More
The Veggie Patch
A few years ago I reclaimed part of a disused, stumpy area on the north side of our yard for a veggie patch. Digging the ground was impossible because of the old stumps, so I built a box. The rest of this area I planted… Read More
The Lawn Sign
A neighbour from up the street dropped by the other day with a lawn sign and asked if I’d like to have one on my front lawn. I’ve never had a lawn sign for anything, not for or against anything, not in support of a… Read More